UPDATED: Suspected bank robbery identified

4:58 PM,
Dec. 18, 2012

Evan Towel, 22, of Grand Cane, is accused of robbing Community Bank in Mansfield today.

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MANSFIELD - Bank robbery suspect Evan Towell's first mistake was to leave a holdup note along with some personal mail on a counter of one bank. Strike No. 2 happened when he failed to immediately leave the city after authorities say he carried out a robbery at another bank.

Combined with the likely fact Towell didn't check the court calendar to know that dozens of extra law enforcement officers were in the city today for court hearings and were able to respond en masse after the bank robbery call went out means the 22-year-old Grand Cane man's blunders possibly earned him decades in prison.